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Re: Disease Pattern just Previous to 1918 Pandemic
I can find no pdf
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/communicablediseases/chapter2.html
chapter 2
INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT (BRONCHITIS, INFLUENZA,
BRONCHOPNEUMONIA, LOBAR PNEUMONIA)
Volume IX: Communicable and Other Diseases
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War (The Official History Series)
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charts 14,9 show a simultaneous start of the 2nd wave in the European
and American US-military-camps in August 1918
It is evident that both in this country and in Europe the rates for respiratory disease
began to rise at least as early as the month of August and that the rise was practically
simultaneous in the two forces
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chart , how prevalence decreases with increased time of service
.... how soldiers of rural origin was related to greater prevalence
attributed to immunity because
> in general, cities suffered from the influenza epidemic more than did the rural communities.
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they had an increase in pneumonia in 1888
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they should have recorded in some test population how many of the influenza/pneumonia cases
had flu,pneumonia before, i.e. in the 1889/90 pandemic
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A brief survey of the weekly sick reports of districts shows for the calendar ye
1916 that highest rates for both regulars and militia were reached in November ai
December.
REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL OF THE ARMY.
Report of the Surgeon-General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the fiscal
year ending .. (Volume 1916-1918). (page 49 of 164
weekly sickness reports
The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941
Mary C. Gillett
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3795833
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Journal of the American Medical Association for
16th November 1918
The horses belonging to the civil population did not escape, and
according to trustworthy reports in some localities nearly every
horse was attacked by the prevalent malady.
In certain villages
around Mirecourt, all the horses suffered from bad coughs at
the very time that human influenza was raging at its worst in
the locality.
The horse epizootic began in April, it attained
its height in August and September, and was declining in
November ; its curve was similar to that of the human epidemic.
• M. L. Martin, Assistant Director of the Paris Pasteur Institute,
has stated that the mortality of the horses in the stables of that
Institute in 1918 had been much higher than usual.
It was
mentioned by some of the older French veterinary surgeons that
in 1889 there was a recrudescence of the " gourme " affections
among horses at the time that influenza was epidemic among
the human population.
Raymond Pearl, of Baltimore, has found a substantial correla-
tion between the influenzal death rate of 1918 in American
cities and the general death rates in those cities for 1916 ;*
the positive
correlation between the summer arid winter death rates from
influenza, and the absence of any correlation between the
autumn and winter influenzal death rates.
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I can find no pdf
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/communicablediseases/chapter2.html
chapter 2
INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT (BRONCHITIS, INFLUENZA,
BRONCHOPNEUMONIA, LOBAR PNEUMONIA)
Volume IX: Communicable and Other Diseases
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War (The Official History Series)
---------------------------------------------------------------
charts 14,9 show a simultaneous start of the 2nd wave in the European
and American US-military-camps in August 1918
It is evident that both in this country and in Europe the rates for respiratory disease
began to rise at least as early as the month of August and that the rise was practically
simultaneous in the two forces
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
chart , how prevalence decreases with increased time of service
.... how soldiers of rural origin was related to greater prevalence
attributed to immunity because
> in general, cities suffered from the influenza epidemic more than did the rural communities.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
they had an increase in pneumonia in 1888
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
they should have recorded in some test population how many of the influenza/pneumonia cases
had flu,pneumonia before, i.e. in the 1889/90 pandemic
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A brief survey of the weekly sick reports of districts shows for the calendar ye
1916 that highest rates for both regulars and militia were reached in November ai
December.
REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL OF THE ARMY.
Report of the Surgeon-General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the fiscal
year ending .. (Volume 1916-1918). (page 49 of 164
weekly sickness reports
The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941
Mary C. Gillett
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3795833
--------------------------------------------------------
Journal of the American Medical Association for
16th November 1918
The horses belonging to the civil population did not escape, and
according to trustworthy reports in some localities nearly every
horse was attacked by the prevalent malady.
In certain villages
around Mirecourt, all the horses suffered from bad coughs at
the very time that human influenza was raging at its worst in
the locality.
The horse epizootic began in April, it attained
its height in August and September, and was declining in
November ; its curve was similar to that of the human epidemic.
• M. L. Martin, Assistant Director of the Paris Pasteur Institute,
has stated that the mortality of the horses in the stables of that
Institute in 1918 had been much higher than usual.
It was
mentioned by some of the older French veterinary surgeons that
in 1889 there was a recrudescence of the " gourme " affections
among horses at the time that influenza was epidemic among
the human population.
Raymond Pearl, of Baltimore, has found a substantial correla-
tion between the influenzal death rate of 1918 in American
cities and the general death rates in those cities for 1916 ;*
the positive
correlation between the summer arid winter death rates from
influenza, and the absence of any correlation between the
autumn and winter influenzal death rates.
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